Phone-tapping case: Senior IPS officer files protest petition before CBI Special Court

Senior IPS officer Bhaskar Rao, on Tuesday, filed a protest petition before the CBI Special Court. He appealed to the court to not accept the Closure Report filed by CBI in the phone-tapping case. A t

Senior IPS officer Bhaskar Rao, on Tuesday, filed a protest petition before the CBI Special Court. He appealed to the court to not accept the Closure Report filed by CBI in the phone-tapping case. A telephonic conversation between Mr. Rao and one Faraz Ahmed, discussing the posting as the Bengaluru Police Commissioner was broadcast on a Kannada news channel, creating a storm in August 2019. A preliminary probe revealed alleged illegal phone tapping by Mr. Kumar’s predecessor Alok Kumar, after which the case was handed over to CBI. The CBI booked two separate cases, one pertaining to Mr. Rao’s case on how the audio was leaked to the media and another pertaining to alleged illegal phone tapping. It had recently filed a closure report in the case pertaining to Mr. Rao, stating that there was no conclusive evidence on the source of the audio tapes, against which Mr. Rao has now filed a protest petition.